Originally Posted by
GUWonder
States are lousy moral actors everywhere or just about everywhere.
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Sovereign state governments are the ultimate thugs of sorts and there isn't a major country anywhere that is the exception to this.
How'd that whole anarchy thing work out for Somalia?
Seriously, governments are simply a collection of imperfect individuals and are therefore imperfect. I'm reminded of the old Winston Churchill quote "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
I for one and quite happy to live in a country where we live under the rule of law, most of the time.